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Grade 9Mechanics

What are the similarities and differences between Speed and Velocity?

Profile image of Waqas Ahmed
15 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Waqas Ahmed
15 Years ago

Similarities:

                          The magnitude of Speed and velocity of a body are same. The SI unit of both is same as m/s

Differences:

                                             Speed is Scalar quantity while Velocity is Vector quantity. 


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Profile image of vikas askiitian expert
15 Years ago

for a straight line motion in one dimension velocity is equal to speed...

velocity is vector n speed is scalar....

magnitude of velocity is always equal or less than speed....

equal in case of one dimension straight line motion but in any other cases velocity is smaller than speed in magnitude...